Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
There's an entire thread devoted to working at home. I have an opinion about many of the things I read in there but one of the things I am almost sure of, this group has an abnormal number of folks that work from home. We know from more recent articles on Google lots of companies are bringing back their staff and folks that have been working from home are being asked to return, the alternative for many is they lose their job if they won't come back.
I have several thoughts and ideas that will flow out of this main topic with the help of others who post about their journeys thru this incredible and fairly unique time in the workforce. I can never remember when I was first starting work in the early 90s, the thought of being able to answer phones at home when I was 18-19-20 vs a call center or whatever is/was unthinkable. We would have been laughed at and called slackers but fast forward to 2020 and so many folks that settled in to work from home, it's gotta be painful for many to have to start trudging back into work...my 24 year old is actively pursuing work from home IT jobs, I keep reminding him that times are starting to shift back to people going into offices. He currently has to go into the office everyday but Friday
Mrs and I work from home 4 days a week, she absolutely has to go into the office 1 day a week, it's about 80 miles one way from our house
And the people we work around are not whistling for anyone to come into the office, in fact the person in charge over everyone has encouraged most of us to continue working from home.
Again there is a side story to why she might feel this way including but not limited to the fact she has a much younger boyfriend that she hired from out of state and put on the payroll...nothing wrong there
I'm curious what the ratio of FBG to work at home must be and especially right now, 4 years after Covid.
Some of you had to to return in some capacity and would like to hear more about that and how it's going right now.
Cheers!
I have several thoughts and ideas that will flow out of this main topic with the help of others who post about their journeys thru this incredible and fairly unique time in the workforce. I can never remember when I was first starting work in the early 90s, the thought of being able to answer phones at home when I was 18-19-20 vs a call center or whatever is/was unthinkable. We would have been laughed at and called slackers but fast forward to 2020 and so many folks that settled in to work from home, it's gotta be painful for many to have to start trudging back into work...my 24 year old is actively pursuing work from home IT jobs, I keep reminding him that times are starting to shift back to people going into offices. He currently has to go into the office everyday but Friday
Mrs and I work from home 4 days a week, she absolutely has to go into the office 1 day a week, it's about 80 miles one way from our house

And the people we work around are not whistling for anyone to come into the office, in fact the person in charge over everyone has encouraged most of us to continue working from home.
Again there is a side story to why she might feel this way including but not limited to the fact she has a much younger boyfriend that she hired from out of state and put on the payroll...nothing wrong there

I'm curious what the ratio of FBG to work at home must be and especially right now, 4 years after Covid.
Some of you had to to return in some capacity and would like to hear more about that and how it's going right now.
Cheers!